Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > After my recent install and upgrade to woody I can't print tex > documents. Other printing seems okay, mail messages from mutt print > fine. > > xdvi displays the document properly, but when I try to print the > following file: > > $dvips quantum.tex > > the printed output is [some Postscript/TeX garbage] > [..]
"Bambang Purnomosidi D. P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answered: > Yup. that's the right output. The dvips is used to create ps from dvi file. > You need to use -o option for dvips to create a ps file and then you can use > gv to view the ps file. Check out man dvips. Yes, you can do it that way. A better way seems to me, to install either APSfilter, Magicfilter, or CUPS. These packages install filters that are invoked by lpr. As a result, lpr recognizes the content type of the file (e.g. postscript, dvi, plain text or some graphics format), translates it automatically to the native code of your printer and then sends it to the queue of your printer. As a result, you can give the command: $ lpr quantum.dvi or, when the dvi file contains postscript: $ dvips -f quantum |lpr I cannot tell which of the three packages APSfilter, magicfilter or CUPS is best. I use magicfilter and that works very well Paul Huygen
